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Polykarp Kusch was born in Blankenburg, Germany, on the 26th January, 1911, the son of a clergyman. He has lived in the United States since 1912 and is a citizen of that country. He received his early education in the midwest of the United States. His original professional goal was in the field of chemistry,…

J. Hans D. Jensen was born in Hamburg on 25th June 1907, the son of a gardener Karl Jensen. From 1926 he studied physics, mathematics, physical chemistry and philosophy at the Universities of Hamburg and Freiburg i. Br. He obtained his Ph.D in 1932 in Hamburg (physics, Dr.rer.nat.). He became scientific assistant at the Institute…

Leo Esaki was born in Osaka, Japan in 1925. Esaki completed work for a B.S. in Physics in 1947 and received his Ph.D in 1959, both from the University of Tokyo. Esaki is an IBM Fellow and has been engaged in semiconductor research at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York,…

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Presentation Speech by Professor I. Wailer, member of the Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen. The Nobel Prize winners in Physics of this year were both employed shortly before the war at the Physics Laboratory of Columbia University in New York. Lamb was at first engaged in theoretical research and published several important…

English 8 October 2002 has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2002 with one half jointly to Raymond Davis Jr Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA, and Masatoshi Koshiba International Center for Elementary Particle Physics, University of Tokyo, Japan “for pioneering contributions to astrophysics, in particular for the…

English Presentation Speech by Professor Joseph Nordgren, Member of the , Chairman of the Nobel Committee for Physics, 10 December 2009 Professor Joseph Nordgren delivering the Presentation Speech for the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics at the Stockholm Concert Hall. Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Ladies and Gentlemen, This year’s Nobel Prize in…